Xiuxian: I use magnetic fields to prove my truth

Chapter 75 Lin Hongyu's Death

"Brother, did you also see the vision ahead?"

Yuan Hongying stopped in surprise.

Zhou Qing then remembered that this place was not far from Yuan Hongying's home. He asked, "What happened over there?"

Yuan Hongying said with a hint of worry: "That's Senior Sister Lin Hongyu's home. She's recently preparing to break through to the third level of Qi Refining. Could it be..."

As she spoke, her voice gradually faded.

Zhou Qing thought that Lin Hongyu had successfully broken through, but he didn't expect that she hadn't succeeded until now. Looking at the red light rushing straight into the air in front of him and the slightly restless spiritual energy, Zhou Qing had an ominous premonition.

He said, "Let's go and take a look."

After a few breaths, the two arrived at the villa in the middle of the peach forest.

A red light emanated from the villa and floated towards the sky like a red silk.

Zhou Qing could feel that it was extremely pure and condensed fire spiritual energy that was constantly dissipating into the surrounding heaven and earth.

Fang Yuhe banged on the door hard, but no one responded for a long time. He wanted to cross the wall to enter, but was blocked by the formation. In the end, he could only stand outside the gate in despair.

His shoulders hunched inward, his spine bent, and he looked like a collapsed sack.

Other registered disciples kept coming over after seeing the strange phenomenon.

Among them are those from Zhou Qing's class, as well as those from Fang Yuhe and Liu Bingxuan's classes.

Although the details were unclear, everyone quickly guessed what had happened.

Lin Hongyu failed to break through, her Taoist foundation was completely destroyed, and her spiritual energy dissipated.

Liu Bingxuan and others knew Fang Yuhe's feelings for Lin Hongyu, and stayed by his side silently.

The other disciples had grudges against Fang Yuhe and others in the past, but at this time they had no intention of gloating.

Lin Hongyu's failure made everyone realize that they all have a common identity.

A person of immortality.

Now a fellow human being has passed away, and they may face the same situation in the future.

This feeling of sympathy made all the disciples temporarily forget their mutual grievances and immersed themselves in a sad mood.

About a quarter of an hour later, a Taoist priest in white clothes descended from the sky, opened the gate of Lin Hongyu's villa and rushed in.

Not long after, the Taoist priest appeared at the door again. Everyone, including Zhou Qing, took a few steps forward at the same time. They saw that the Taoist priest was holding a mutilated corpse in his arms. The surface of the corpse was charred and the face was unrecognizable.

Everyone had originally hoped that Lin Hongyu would just disappear into the spiritual realm, rather than die. This hope was to pray for Lin Hongyu, but deep down in their hearts it was also to comfort themselves, thinking that even if her cultivation failed and her skills were dispersed, she could at least keep her life. Seeing this situation, the hope in their hearts was immediately dashed.

Everyone was deeply shocked and the atmosphere became even more depressing.

Fang Yuhe was Lin Hongyu's senior brother. The Taoist handed the body to Fang Yuhe and asked him to bury it properly.

Fang Yuhe nodded silently and walked down the mountain.

Liu Bingxuan and others wanted to follow him, but he waved his hand vigorously to drive them away.

Only after Fang Yuhe's figure disappeared in the distance did everyone leave dejectedly.

Yuan Hongying tearfully said, "Senior Sister Lin has tried to break through several times in the past two months, but she's failed every time. Each time, her faith has weakened a little, and her Dao heart is almost broken. This time, she broke through on her own without asking Senior Brother Fang for protection. I'm afraid she finally mustered up the courage and is determined to succeed or die."

"I didn't expect that this rare courage wouldn't move Heaven either."

"Brother, will I one day follow in the footsteps of Senior Sister Lin Hongyu?"

Lin Hongyu's death almost made Yuan Hongying lose her mind.

She and Lin Hongyu were neighbors and interacted with each other frequently, so she knew her diligence better than others. She also knew that although she was not very conspicuous, she possessed excellent talents of eleven spiritual roots, which made her much stronger than herself with only eight spiritual roots.

Now, this senior sister who was better than her in every aspect ended up dead. She couldn't help but have deep doubts about her future in cultivating immortals.

Zhou Qing nodded and said, "Those who cultivate immortality seek immortality, but often die young. Perhaps this is the price of peeking into taboos."

"Every three steps on the immortal path bring disaster, every five steps bring difficulty. If you don't have the resolve to risk your life, you won't be able to continue."

Yuan Hongying was silent for a moment, then said, "Senior Sister Lin risked her life in the end, but she also failed."

Zhou Qing said: "Risking one's life is only a qualification for entry, but it is not a guarantee of success."

It is funny to think that the path to immortality requires one to be prepared to sacrifice one's life first.

But it is precisely this determination and contradiction of either becoming an immortal or dying that makes the path to immortality full of unique charm, attracting generations of immortal seekers.

Seeing Yuan Hongying's frightened eyes and pitiful expression, Zhou Qing asked, "Are you scared?"

Yuan Hongying nodded honestly.

Zhou Qing smiled and said, "You are quite frank."

"If you want to save your life, I have a way."

Yuan Hongying asked, "What method?"

Zhou Qing said: "Give up your cultivation from now on, go down the mountain in ten years, and never touch the immortal way again. With the foundation you have accumulated in the past six months, it will not be a problem for you to live to the end of a mortal's life."

"Every time there's a major exam every ten years, there are many disciples whose cultivation stagnates at the first level of Qi Refining, and they're simply expelled from Qingyun Sect." Yuan Hongying said aggrievedly, "How can a senior brother discourage a junior sister like this?"

Zhou Qing shook his head and said, "If you continue to be so fearful and hesitant, your fate will be no better than Lin Hongyu's. Rather than having to carry your mutilated body down the mountain to be buried like Fang Yuhe did in a few years, it's better to let you live in peace for ten years."

Yuan Hongying was shocked all over, and then she realized that her senior brother was trying to inspire her courage to fight to the death.

Everyone knows that Senior Brother Fang and Senior Sister Lin are a couple. Senior Brother doesn't want to be buried like Senior Brother Fang, holding his own body. Isn't that...

A surge of excitement exploded in Yuan Hongying's heart, dispelling most of the sadness and confusion caused by Lin Hongyu's death.

Even if she doesn't want immortality for herself, but only wants to continue her relationship with her senior brother for a few more decades, she has to overcome all the difficulties on the path to immortality.

As if to express her determination, she shouted loudly: "Brother, don't worry, I will never let you down. I will never follow Sister Lin's old path!"

Ok?
Zhou Qing looked at her doubtfully and thought, why did this girl suddenly become so excited? Could she have misunderstood what I said?
He thought about it carefully and felt that there was nothing in his words that could cause misunderstanding, so he ignored it.

He said, "It's getting late, Junior Sister, go back and rest."

Yuan Hongying said, "Brother, you should rest early too."

After that, the two of them parted ways and went to their own villas.

Zhou Qing had only taken a few steps when he suddenly saw a white figure walking slowly in front of him. Soon the figure disappeared into the depths of the dense forest. Judging from the figure, it should be Nie Yunxi.

It turns out she was here too, but why didn’t she even say hello?
This girl has become more and more withdrawn recently.

Zhou Qing suddenly remembered that a month ago he had wanted to visit Nie Yunxi and ask her if she had encountered any trouble recently, otherwise why she had become so withdrawn.

But as soon as he went out, he was stopped by people from the Discipline Hall. Later, he did not deal with Wei Xu's trouble and actually forgot about this matter.

Since we meet today, why not follow and see.

Zhou Qing raised his leg and was about to chase in the direction where Nie Yunxi disappeared, but suddenly stopped.

He remembered that he had not yet completed his daily formation exercises in order to come here to check.

Since he set himself daily homework, he has been carrying it out resolutely for the past six months, never giving up for a single day. As a result, he has developed a strong habit. If there is any day when he has not finished his homework, he will feel uneasy as if a hundred claws are on his mind.

Forget it, I'd better go back and learn the formation. It won't be too late to visit him when I'm free tomorrow at noon.

So he continued walking towards his own villa.

After reading all night, he walked out of the villa and took a walk in the bamboo forest. Thinking of Lin Hongyu's misfortune last night, he couldn't help but sigh.

To use the words of the previous life, there is a difference between quantitative change and qualitative change in Qi refining.

Circulating qi every day accumulates the amount of spiritual energy in the body, which is quantitative change.

When the quantitative change reaches a certain limit, specifically, when the spiritual pressure reaches three feet, a qualitative transformation will occur.

The essence of this transformation is to forcibly compress the surging spiritual energy in the body into a more concentrated and high-quality spiritual energy.

If successful, you can continue to accumulate spiritual energy on this basis.

But compressing spiritual energy is not so easy. If you are not careful, the spiritual energy will riot, and the result will be what Lin Hongyu is like.

Zhou Qing himself was not worried. He had rich experience in compressing spiritual energy, and the five-colored divine light was the product of that. However, other disciples were not so lucky.

Every breakthrough is like a difficult birth, and we should be grateful if we can survive.

Speaking of compressing spiritual energy within the body...

Zhou Qing suddenly had an idea. The entire path of cultivating immortals was accompanied by the compression of spiritual energy.

For those cultivators at higher levels, such as Nascent Soul, God Transformation, or even higher levels, is it possible for the spiritual energy in their bodies to reach the level of five-colored divine light or even a hundred thousand times the standard concentration to manifest runes?

Zhou Qing couldn't help but be amazed at the thought of storing the five-colored divine light and even more explosive spiritual energy in his body.

After a period of random thoughts, Zhou Qing returned home and did his morning homework.

At noon, he finished his homework and was about to go to see Nie Yunxi as planned when Wang Xiaohu suddenly came to visit.

Zhou Qing saw his distressed expression and said with a smile, "Why do you look like that?"

Wang Xiaohu smiled bitterly and said, "Brother Zhou Qing, I'm done."

Zhou Qing asked in surprise: "Why is it over?"

Wang Xiaohu said, "Last night, Senior Sister Lin Hongyu passed away. I was there and saw Uncle Lu Qingzhu carrying her remains."

"I don't know why, but Senior Sister's miserable appearance keeps lingering in my mind. Today, I tried to practice, but I couldn't find a way to calm down and circulate my Qi."

"Do you think I'm scared?"

Zhou Qing nodded and said, "That's about right."

Of course, a more professional term would be post-traumatic stress disorder, which refers to psychological disorders caused by experiencing severe traumatic events.

For these rookies who have only been learning the immortal way for half a year, Lin Hongyu's experience is extremely terrifying. The reason is that Lin Hongyu's tragedy is also something they may encounter at any time.

Especially when they saw Lin Hongyu's body burned black and incomplete, the fear reached an extreme.

(End of this chapter)